[cancercured] 13 Yr Old Daughter with HCC and mets to the lungs.

Hello all,

I am new to this forum and have not posted anywhere regarding my
daughters situation but am looking forward to any information or
suggestions you can share.

Late Nov07 she was diagnosed & we started her 1st round of chemo
early in Dec. Oral chemo is taken each morning as well as an IV
dripped in once a month. At this point I had read to the point of
exhaustion every piece of medical literature regarding her situation
with it ending up at the same place and time frame. It was at this
point that I started looking into the natural healing suppliments &
programs and was quite encouraged by what I was coming across. I was
also eager to try her on the FOCC that I had recently discovered but
figured that I would run into problems as she is picky eater as all
kids are. To my disappointment she only ate 1 spoonfull of the first
mixture I made & refused to eat any more. Not to be thwarted that
easily I tried a smoothie recipie that I came across that was
delicious, even the other kids thought so, but she wont drink that
either. I then spoke to natural health advocates regarding
suppliments and started her on IP6, Epa/Dha Omega3, Acidophilus,
CoQ10,,,,,,,,,,,,, the list goes on.

At the 2 month point another CT was done and revealed that the
largest 3 of the many lung mets had shrunk & there were dead & dying
spots in the primary tumor on the liver but the tumor itself had
gotten slightly larger. We took this as good news ( and it was so
good to finally get some )as the Onco didn't expect to see any
change. She has been ok with taking capsuls up to her 3rd round of
chemo. After that she has been quite nauseated & can only take a few
capsuls a day without throwing up. This lasted for 2 weeks.

A week ago we had a meeting with the Onco & another Dr and they were
proposing a Chemo-embylization for the 2 large lobes of the liver.
They aparently don't usually do this for patients with mets but
because of the shrinkage of the lung mets they figure that with
continued use of the oral chemo while they do the embylization the
lung tumors will not grow.

My question is if any of the readers of this forum have undergone
this treatment, what are the side effects & how severe are they.
My wife & I are considering not having her undergo any more chemo
and start the BP but would like to get some feedback from anyone
with a child going through this or similar and strategies for
implementing the BP with kids.

Thank-you in advance.

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